{"id":42665,"date":"2024-08-14T07:12:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T12:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=42665"},"modified":"2024-08-14T09:41:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T14:41:15","slug":"the-office-of-the-attorney-general-dismantled-los-americanos-network-due-to-petty-drug-dealing-in-quindio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2024\/08\/14\/the-office-of-the-attorney-general-dismantled-los-americanos-network-due-to-petty-drug-dealing-in-quindio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office of the Attorney General dismantled ‘Los Americanos’ network due to petty drug dealing in Quind\u00edo"},"content":{"rendered":"

In total, 17 alleged members of the illegal organization were prosecuted. The illicit substances were purchased in Cauca.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The Attorney General’s Office prosecuted 17 alleged members of ‘Los Americanos’, allegedly responsible for aggravated conspiracy to commit crimes, aggravated homicide, forced displacement, illegal destination of personal property or real estate; trafficking, manufacture or drug possession and manufacture, trafficking and possession of firearms or ammunition.<\/span><\/p>\n

The people involved are: Jos\u00e9 Didier Vega, alias pecas; Ever Vi\u00e1fara Grueso, alias Lulo; Pedro Nel Angulo, alias Tumaco; Carlos Eduardo Hoyos S\u00e1nchez, Montenegro Natalia Garc\u00eda Vasco, Jorge Iv\u00e1n Ossa Escobar, Cristian Gehovanny Ochoa Cardona, Mar\u00eda Consuelo Vega De Arias, Marino Alberto Yusti Vega, H\u00e9ctor Gemay Cardona Galeano, Leidy Johana Urbano Saac, Fredy Posada Morales, Justino Saa Banguera, Wilson Romero Cortes, Julio C\u00e9sar Victoria, Carlos Andr\u00e9s Solis, and Juan David Morales.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the investigation, Vegas de Arias and Yusti Vega were allegedly in charge of dosing the drugs; and Cardona Galeano and Posada Morales were in charge of transporting the illegal substances.<\/span><\/p>\n

These people were allegedly in charge of the drug trade in Armenia, Montenegro (Quind\u00edo) and Tumaco (Nari\u00f1o), cities where they were also arrested by the National Police.<\/span><\/p>\n

Judicial police work revealed that the criminal network acquired the drugs in Cauca and transported them to Quind\u00edo in different vehicles, where they stored and sold them in neighborhoods such as: Monserrate, Tigreros, Cincuentenario, Libertadores, Terranova, Parque de los Sue\u00f1os and downtown Armenia.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Office of the Attorney General established that the organization used firearms to intimidate residents in areas where it carried out illegal sales, and in this way they had the territorial control.<\/span><\/p>\n

The defendants did not plead guilty to the charges. All of them were sent to prison.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.<\/span><\/p>\n

The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out criminal investigations within the Office of the Attorney General. By the time this communication is disclosed, the legal status of the people mentioned is still pending to be resolved by the competent judicial authority, always under the presumption of innocence contemplated by Article 29 of the Political Constitution and Article 7 of Law 906 of 2004.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In total, 17 alleged members of the illegal organization were prosecuted. The illicit substances were purchased in Cauca. The Attorney General’s Office prosecuted 17 alleged members of ‘Los Americanos’, allegedly responsible for aggravated conspiracy to commit crimes, aggravated homicide, forced displacement, illegal destination of personal property or real estate; trafficking, manufacture or drug possession and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42666,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42665\/revisions\/42666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}